“I’m like everyone else,” writes about himself Cristiano (Aristides de Sousa), the working class hero at the center of Affonso Uchoa and João Dumans’ Araby, “It’s just my life that was a little bit different.” Calling that an understatement would be a euphemism. An average-sized and average-looking factory worker in the Southern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Cristiano is an everyman par excellence. Neither charismatic nor particularly striking – at least not on a first look – he seems so ordinary it takes us twenty minutes to understand he’s Araby’s protagonist, and not some flickering extra. When we first meet him, he is given a lift to his steel factory; up until then, Uchoa and Dumans had followed Andre (Murilo Caliari), a pensive and bookish teenage boy living with his aunt Márcia (Gláucia Vandeveld) in a derelict house close to the hellish steel mill. By the time we next hear about him,...
- 6/23/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Araby (Arábia) Grasshopper Films Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: João Dumans, Affonso Uchôa Screenwriter: João Dumans, Affonso Uchôa Cast: Aristedes de Sousa, Murilo Caliari, Renata Cabral, Glaucia Vandeveld Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 5/25/18 Opens: June 22, 2018 João Dumans and Affonso Uchôa, who wrote and direct “Araby,” focus on the type of person who […]
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- 6/17/2018
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"I'm like anybody else. It's just my life that was a little bit different." Grasshopper Films has released the official Us trailer for an acclaimed Brazilian indie film titled Araby, originally titled Arábia in Portuguese. The film played at numerous big film festivals last year, and is a James Joyce-inspired Brazilian road movie. The film follows Andre, a young boy living in an industrial neighborhood in Ouro Preto, Brazil, near an old aluminum factory. One day he finds a notebook from one of the factory workers, which sets him off on a journey unlike any he has been on before. The film stars Murilo Caliari, Aristides de Sousa, Gláucia Vandeveld, Renata Cabral, and Renan Rovida. This looks like a very contemplative, engaging film that might offer up some unique and important wisdom about life. I quite like the music they use in this trailer. Here's the official Us trailer...
- 6/8/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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